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LoglineAn accident while investigating a time portal sends Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler through time from the 24th century, and Captain Pike and his crew must get them back where they belong before they can alter the timeline.

Written by Kathryn Lyn & Bill Wolkoff

Directed by Jonathan Frakes

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Pelia is quoting Carey Grant when she talks to Boimler. I thought that was neat.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An extremely fun episode, had a stupid grin on my face right from the opening.

One thing that jumped out at me was the adjectives used: "scientists, explorers, adventurers." The episode reinforced what Starfleet as an organization and Trek as a concept are all about.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh man, I really loved this episode. Very fun. Kinda sad we didn't get to see Tendi and Rutherford live action though. Would be great to see maybe some of the SNW crew end up on the Cerritos...

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is truly the best Star Trek episode, bar none. Hadn't had goosebumps like this since watching "All Good Things..." back in 1994.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Small note I LOVE that they're extending the "not all Orions are pirates" theme!!! LD did such a great job demystifying a race of people with Ensign Tendi and it only makes sense that their people have always been more than just a stereotype even during the TOS era. Was cool to see Boimler help change that perception with the Enterprise crew and confirmed when the Orion science captain saying "that's all we wanted" about being seen as explorers just like Star Fleet!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can confirm that this episode is live on Crave, as well as Paramount+ in the relevant regions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is up with that? It's not supposed to be out until Thursday. That's a heck of a release date slippage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They released earlier to coincide with screening it at SDCC.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I loved it. I was ready to be annoyed they didn't do a LD animation style intro sequence but they nailed it; nacelle monster and all. Same for the ending; I was hopeful they would do the end scene LD style and again they just nailed it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

What a nice surprise after work on a Sunday!

The episode was bloody tremendous! I knew they were going to appear in SNW but somehow I didn't think it was going to be cartoon and live action together, I thought they would just be sucked into the past and we'd see the real actors. The intro and outro were both great. It was just brilliant all round.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my all-time favorite episode of Star Trek. Wow, wow, wow ......... wow.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What an absolutely fantastic episode. Loved every second of it! As soon as it finished I just wanted to watch the whole thing again (but couldn’t because of stupid work)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Definitely one of the most enjoyable episodes of any modern Star Trek episodes if not the best. Love the calls back to the other shows and Star Trek history. I like how the Lower Decks actors played their human characters just as skillfully as they voice them. I loved their connections with the SNW crew. Just beautifully well written. Feels like that it made up for what seemed to be lacking in the previous episode.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The episode was really good. I like the appearance of the Orion Scout Ship we see in "Journey to Babel", one of my favorite ships. It may raise some slight continuity errors, but who cares. Nice ship, nice episode, nice show. Probably one of the best episodes of Trek I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still giddy about this episode. Possibly the best thing I've ever seen.

One thing I noticed particularly in this episode is how respectful both SNW and LD are of canon and fandom in general - the bit about not all Orions being pirates, for example. I know it originates w/Tendi from Lower Decks, but just in the context of this episode they take the one-dimensional nature of the Orions from TOS, poke a little fun at it, but then make it about the bias that the Federation/Star Fleet has against a culture they really don't understand. The SNW writers effortlessly take what could be considered a flaw or one-dimensional writing from TOS and actually use it to flesh out the ST universe, all while telling a great story.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve only seen the first maybe 8 episodes of Lower Decks can I watch this episode without spoiling the rest of the seasons?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah you’re all good

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Minor spoilers.. there's a Tendi reference that is somewhat important. But all the lower decks references you really need will be explained in the episode.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

L O V E I T

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